In the 1930’s, a mother was concerned about her son’s addiction to sugar. She brought her son to the Indian sage, Mahatma Ghandi. “My son consumes far too much sugar,” the mother said to Ghandi. “Will you tell him it’s bad for his health?”
Ghandi told the woman to come back in two weeks. Two weeks later, she once again brought her son to see Ghandi. This time Ghandi said to the boy, “You should stop eating sugar. It is not good for your health.”
The woman was perplexed. She asked Ghandi why he hadn’t given her son this same advice two weeks ago. “Two weeks ago,” Ghandi said, “I had an obsession with sugar. I needed that time to cut back myself.”
